A task in Writing Section of the test

Psychologists have known for many years that color can affect how people feel. For this reason, attention should be given to color schemes when decorating places such as offices and hospitals.

How true is this statement? How far does color influence people's health and capacity for work?

Task: Write an essay which expresses the idea that the statement is not very true.

Color is arguably not one of the first things which people notice around them. Moreover, there are a lot of other things which people find more important.

As a matter of fact, it doesn’t matter what color of the walls your office has. Employees should work and not look at the office’s walls. So, in fact, the color shouldn’t have any influence on the worker’s capability.

Interestingly, light colors are preferred in almost all offices, because they are a natural color and it’s simple to buy it.

Similarly, there’s the color of the walls and furniture used in the hospitals is unimportant. The patients have one main wish - to be healthier. That’s why they would like to leave the hospitals as fast as possible.

Having said that, patients find it more important that their friends and family visit them or that they are given by some presents or flowers, than what color of the walls in their hospital wards are.

As far as I am concerned, I have never noticed the color anywhere. It seems to me that the relations between people or some occasions in my life are more important.